Editorials presaged authorial style, voice
As chair of the News, Buckley wrote with passion, humor and ‘no squeamishness’
In his farewell editorial in the Yale Daily News, William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, chairman from 1949 to 1950, took his final bow — but not without a final salvo.
“For one year this column has been classified, variously, as reactionary, archaic, malicious and fascist,” he wrote on Jan. 20, 1950. “Suffice it to say that we enjoyed it all and that we hope for a Republican victory in November.”
Rest in Peace, Bill.